He worked as a research assistant with the Mechanical Translation group in 1962 and 1963, and in 1965 he received his doctorate for a dissertation under Noam Chomsky on " The accentual system of modern standard Japanese ".
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Companies seeking to market a product across different languages and cultures have a spectrum of viable services from which to choose, ranging from mechanical translation on one end to the full resources of a multinational advertising agency on the other.
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The performance of music is more than just a standardized, mechanical translation of musical scores into sound . ( Otherwise, there's no point in having more than one recording of the same musical piece by multiple performers . ) Your program would need to detect those " parameters " of a performance whose variation give rise to the personal styles of individual performers, and do that correctly despite the distortion in the original recording.
